Joint Project: Reducing the Role of Tactical Nuclear Weapons in Europe

Joint Project: Reducing the Role of Tactical Nuclear Weapons in Europe

Between 2010-2014, BASIC ran a series of joint projects on reducing the role of tactical nuclear weapons in Europe, supported by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. Partners in these projects included the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP), Arms Control Association and the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg (IFSH).

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Background Papers

2010-2014

SWP-BASIC Workshop “Non-Strategic Nuclear Weapons in Europe: Transparency and Confidence-Building Measures in Practice” SWP, Berlin, March 27–28, 2014.

BASIC background paper published May 2014:

The Experience of Nuclear Weapon-Free Zones

May 2014

Marc Finaud, Senior Advisor, Emerging Security Challenges Programme, Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP), and Senior Resident Fellow, United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR).

BASIC background paper published April 2014:

NATO and Russia experiences with nuclear transparency and confidence-building measures

April 2014

Katarzyna Kubiak, Research Assistant at SWP, and Ph.D. candidate at the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg.
Max M. Mutschler, Special Assistant to the Director and Researcher at SWP.

Nuclear Policy Papers Series

ACA/BASIC/IFSH Nuclear Policy Paper series:

Nuclear Policy Paper No. 15
The Role of NATO in the French White Paper and implications for nuclear arms control
Jean-Marie Collin, October 2013
Nuclear Policy Paper No. 14
Countdown to Chaos? Timelines and Implications of Procurement Decisions for NATO’s Dual-Capable Aircraft
Ted Seay, July 2013
Nuclear Policy Paper No. 13
NATO’s Nuclear Guardians: WhyNATO’s bureaucracy is unable to initiate change to, or support reform of, Alliance nuclear policy
Ted Seay, May 2013
Nuclear Policy Paper No. 12
Theatre Nuclear Weapons and the next round of bilateral New START Treaty follow-on talks
Ted Seay, January 2013
Nuclear Policy Paper No. 11
Modernizing NATO’s Nuclear Forces: Implications for the Alliance’s defense posture on arms control
Hans Kristensen, November 2012
Nuclear Policy Paper No. 10
Dissecting the DDPR
Ted Seay, July 2012
Nuclear Policy Paper No. 9
The Future of NATO’s Nuclear Weapons
Amb. Rolf Nikel, November 2011
Nuclear Policy Paper No. 8
Revising NATO’s Nuclear Posture: The Way Forward
Oliver Meier, August 2011
Nuclear Policy Paper No. 7
NATO’s Defense and Deterrence Posture Review: A French Perspective on Nuclear Issues
Paul Zajac, April 2011
Nuclear Policy Paper No. 6
The United States, NATO’s Strategic Concept, and Nuclear Issues
Steven Pifer, April 2011
Nuclear Policy Paper No. 5
Turkey, NATO & and Nuclear Sharing: Prospects after NATO’s Lisbon Summit
Mustafa Kilbaroglu, April 2011
Nuclear Policy Paper No. 4
NATO’s New Strategic Concept and the future of tactical nuclear weapons
Oliver Meier, November 2010
Nuclear Policy Paper No. 3
Current NATO Nuclear Policy
Rt. Hon Lord Browne of Ladyton (Des Browne), November 2010
Nuclear Policy Paper No. 2
Polish and Central European Priorities on NATO’s Future Nuclear Policy
Łukasz Kulesa, November 2010
Nuclear Policy Paper No. 1
Options for arms control to reduce the role of nuclear weapons in NATO
Peter Gottwald, November 2010

Archive Programmes

BASIC believes in making progress on nuclear disarmament, arms control, and non-proliferation through multiple complementary approaches. We continuously develop our programmes – streams of research – through sustained engagement with a wide range of stakeholders, collectively searching for the art of the possible.

Our archive programmes are listed below. Browse our archive programmes page by clicking here.

Current Programmes

BASIC believes in making progress on nuclear disarmament, arms control, and non-proliferation through multiple complementary approaches. We continuously develop our programmes – streams of research – through sustained engagement with a wide range of stakeholders, collectively searching for the art of the possible.

Our current programmes are listed below. Browse our current programmes page by clicking here.

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